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526 examples of Gentle in a sentence

Unfortunately, van Rompuy, an author and poet, has spoken out against Turkish membership in far cruder terms than one would expect from a gentle haiku writer.
The Chinese Road to PyongyangNEW YORK – Kim Jong Il’s visit to China this week was a gentle reminder that the road to Pyongyang leads through Beijing.
The opportunity to implement a policy that is simultaneously sensible, flexible, gentle, and effective in advancing national and global goals does not arise very often.
The Arab Spring and Europe’s ChanceROME – The term “spring” may suggest a gentle awakening, but what is happening in North Africa and the Middle East is a true revolution, fomented by a new, digitally-savvy generation.
Hang Seav Heang, 28, described the defendant as a gentle man, a good father.
At a British Bankers Association Conference in London this month, he said: “It may be time for a gentle reminder that central-bank independence is not debatable,” Dombret suggested.
Instead, small policy-rate increases must be incorporated into a broader fiscal and distributional strategy, implemented alongside more public spending on infrastructure and skills upgrading, as well as some gentle forms of income policies, employing, for example, “moral suasion.”
Their integrity, however, will not be impugned by a gentle reminder that they, too, are human beings, susceptible to human passions and resentments; that the considerable power they wield tends, as all power does, to reach as far as it can; and that, as a consequence, they have become fully enmeshed in a campaign from which, invoking Montesquieu, they should strive scrupulously to hold themselves at a distance.
So why did a gentle former literature professor named Liu Xiaobo have to be sentenced to 11 years in prison, just because he publicly advocated freedom of expression and an end to one-party rule?
Around the world, most people now rightly celebrate the gentle dignity with which Mandela led South Africa out of the political wilderness.
He had a large face with heavy jowls, a soft chin, and surprisingly gentle eyes.
Afterwards, she will say to the young man, in a tone of gentle reproach, “too lyrical.”
She was both imperious and gentle, irascible and giving.
On September 14, 2015, scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the United States detected the gravitational wave as gentle chirp on their instruments – providing the first confirmation of a prediction made by Albert Einstein 100 years earlier.
Unlike the testy Chinese, Hasina’s spokesperson offered only a gentle rejoinder, rejecting Clinton’s suggestions about alleged mistreatment of Yunus.
It was so very gentle, so strong and irresistible.
Soft spoken, personally modest, gentle, and almost self-effacing, Annan was both a UN insider, promoted from within the organization’s ranks to be the first African to hold the office of Secretary-General, and an anti-establishment campaigner who galvanized and mobilized the international NGO community to force change on often-reluctant states.
For years, we in the West – shame on us – talked up democracy around the world, but, despite the occasional gentle slap on the wrist of Arab despots, we accepted that there was an Arab exception to the desire for freedom and accountability.
Annan was exceptionally considerate and solicitous of the welfare of his staff, often with a gentle sense of humor.
Not surprisingly, the senators’ questions were overwhelmingly gentle, and JPMorgan Chase’s broader lobbying strategy appears to be paying off; “investigations” of irresponsible and system-threatening mismanagement will likely end up as whitewash.
A forlorn job application on a large signpost reads, “Nice girl, gentle without bad habits, will sell cement.”
Europe’s Crisis of TonguesROME – When history repeats itself, it is rarely gentle.
To paraphrase the poet Dylan Thomas, we and our leaders must not go gentle into that good night.
Having boldly approached him, her beautiful eyes beaming (eyes so like her father's), she gave him his hat and made a movement as if to put it on him, her shy and gentle smile softening the boldness of the action.
'Well, have you found anything?' she asked from beneath her white kerchief, turning her handsome face toward him, with a gentle smile.
'Yes, of course, but there are such differences of conviction, and besides...' said Oblonsky with a gentle smile.
When he saw Catherine at the head, with her gentle boyish air, a superstitious idea caused him to risk another question.
She shivered a little from the coldness of her garments soaked in sweat, with a gentle resigned air, ready to submit to things and men.
But the porter, a handsome fellow with strong limbs and a gentle face, refused with a frightened gesture.
And he replied with his gentle voice, almost without an accent:"I am thirsty when I eat."
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